Republican candidate Ted Cruz, for example, tried his hand at a Yoda impression in late November during a town hall meeting in Iowa while discussing the amount of wisdom dished out in "Star Wars," but he managed to butcher Yoda's piece of advice to Jedi-in-training Luke Skywalker, "Do. Or do not. There is no try." Cruz inverted the phrase.

"I think I had the Death Star," Rubio said of a toy he once owned, "but it kept breaking, just like it did in part two — 'Empire Strikes Back,' where it blew up because the guy got that rocket to go into that hole. Remember that?"